Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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Let every man mind his own business.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
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Other men's pains are easily borne.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.